RDP África is a terrestrial radio station owned by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal broadcasting to

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African countries with programming such as Lusophone

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, as well as

Portuguese music Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history. These can be broadly divided into classical music, traditional/folk music and popular music and all of them have produced internationally successful acts, w ...

and

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, with update reports from the Lusophone African recording world. The station broadcasts on FM in Portugal (Lisboa 101.5 MHz, Coimbra 103.4 MHz and Faro 99.1 MHz), but also on most African Portuguese-speaking countries:

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...

, and

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...

. RDP África was introduced to Lusophone Africa when RDP Internacional stopped its broadcast on 6 January 1998 and launched RDP África the next day. The radio station also serves the Portuguese populations of Lusophone Africa and African populations of both black, white, and

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blood of Portugal.

History

Before the creation of RDP África, RDP created an opt-out service called Canal África in 1994. The service was catering Portugal and the Lusophone countries of Africa, with the exception of

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

due to laws banning foreign broadcasts in the country. RDP África became its own service on 1 April 1996, airing a 17-hour schedule, with David Borges as its first director. The service later extended its schedule to 20 hours, from 5am to 1am. The downtime was filled by a simulcast of Antena 1 due to the lack of resources to produce an overnight schedule. For its twelfth anniversary in 2008, RDP África made a special 12-hour broadcast from the Campo Grande subway station, with 12 invitees.

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External links

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FM, DAB and satellite transmitting networkRDP África Live Stream on RTP Play
{{DEFAULTSORT:RDP Africa International broadcasters Radio stations in Angola Radio stations in Cape Verde Radio stations in Guinea-Bissau Radio stations in Mozambique Radio stations in Portugal Radio stations in São Tomé and Príncipe Portuguese-language radio stations Rádio e Televisão de Portugal 1996 establishments in Portugal Radio stations established in 1996